A Wartime Childhood
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Author |
: Binjamin Wilkomirski |
Publisher |
: Schocken |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015038184860 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fragments by : Binjamin Wilkomirski
Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.
Author |
: Michael Foreman |
Publisher |
: Penguin Books |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 1991-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0140342990 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780140342994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis War Boy by : Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman woke up when an incendiary bomb dropped through the roof of his Lowestoft home. Luckily, it missed his bed by inches, bounced off the floor and exploded up the chimney. So begins Michael's fascinating, brilliantly illustrated tale of growing up on the Suffolk frontline during World War II. He tells how he and his friends and family coped with bombing raids and deadly doodlebugs, how gas masks were great for making rude noises, and how nothing could beat rabbit pie! ' ... vivid, humorous and touching' Guardian.
Author |
: Dori Katz |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2013-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226063331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022606333X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Looking for Strangers by : Dori Katz
Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she might, in fact, be able to unearth those years. Looking for Strangers is the deeply honest record of her attempt to do so, a detective story that unfolds through one of the most horrifying periods in history in an attempt to understand one’s place within it. In alternating chapters, Katz journeys into multiple pasts, setting details from her mother’s stories that have captivated her throughout her life alongside an account of her own return to Belgium forty years later—against her mother’s urgings—in search of greater clarity. She reconnects her sharp but fragmented memories: being sent by her mother in 1943, at the age of three, to live with a Catholic family under a Christian identity; then being given up, inexplicably, to an orphanage in the years immediately following the war. Only after that, amid postwar confusion, was she able to reconnect with her mother. Following this trail through Belgium to her past places of hiding, Katz eventually finds herself in San Francisco, speaking with a man who claimed to have known her father in Auschwitz—and thus known his end. Weighing many other stories from the people she meets along her way—all of whom seem to hold something back—she attempts to stitch thread after thread into a unified truth, to understand the countless motivations and circumstances that determined her remarkable life. A story at once about self-discovery, the transformation of memory, a fraught mother-daughter relationship, and the oppression of millions, Looking for Strangers is a book of both historical insight and imaginative grasp. It is a book in which the past, through its very mystery, becomes alive, immediate—of the most urgent importance.
Author |
: Douglas Model |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2022-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781803991320 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1803991321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London by : Douglas Model
In this vivid memoir, Douglas Model tells the incredible true story of his wartime childhood in Wembley amidst the horrors of the Blitz. Contrasting his peaceful infant life – which included a hiking holiday to Nazi Germany in 1934 – with the terrors of war, Douglas remembers his schooling, friendships and childhood mischief alongside the everyday realities of bombing raids, gas masks and rationing. Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London provides an invaluable account of significant wartime events through the eyes of a child, including the fall of France, the Dunkirk evacuation, the horrifying discoveries of Nazi concentration camps and, at long last, the sweetness of Allied victory.
Author |
: Lucjan Krolikowski |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2001-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780595168637 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0595168639 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stolen Childhood by : Lucjan Krolikowski
Stolen Childhood is the story of what happened to some 380,000 Polish children who, with their families, were rounded up by Stalin's orders in 1939 and deported into Asiatic Russia. Lucjan Krolikowski, a young seminarian also deported there, shared and witnessed the suffering of his fellow Poles. Freed by an "amnesty," he joined the Polish Army, and when it moved to the Middle East, Lucjan resumed his theology studies, pronounced his vows, and became a chaplain to a Polish military hospital in Egypt. Reassigned to refugee camps in East Africa, Fr. Lucjan and the wandering Polish children met again in 1947 — a meeting that began a long and loving relationship. In 1949 when the Warsaw Communists claimed guardianship of the Polish orphans in Africa and demanded their repatriation, Fr. Lucjan was forced into a world of international intrigue. Called by the Communists "a kidnapper on an international scale," to his orphans, he was the good shepherd who led them to Canada, where he helped his charges overcome the theft of their childhood and become secure adults in a new world. Stolen Childhood is the book of memories he wrote for them, and a cautionary history for people of good will.
Author |
: Robert Westall |
Publisher |
: Pan Books Limited |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0330334859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780330334853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Children of the Blitz by : Robert Westall
Author |
: Mischa Honeck |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2019-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108478533 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108478530 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars by : Mischa Honeck
This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.
Author |
: Rosemary Breckler |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin School |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0395781191 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780395781197 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sweet Dried Apples by : Rosemary Breckler
A Vietnamese child remembers wartime and her relationship with her grandfather, the village herb doctor.
Author |
: Eva Leveton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105113033950 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eva's Berlin by : Eva Leveton
Author |
: Joel P. Rhodes |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820356112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820356115 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vietnam War in American Childhood by : Joel P. Rhodes
A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War -- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine -- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys -- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam -- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion -- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA -- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children -- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians.